Internet's Robin Hood, or cyberbullies? The opinions on the Anonymous group vary widely as their actions might be interpreted from different points of view. Anonymous took matters in their hands in the case of the cyberbullied Amanda Todd and the raped Nova Scotia girl Rehtaeh Parsons after both of the girls comitted suicide and the authorities were unable to act on it and punish the offenders.
But however genuine their reason might seem, they might have gone too far. In the case of Amanda Todd, the Anonymous blamed the wrong person for the bullying, which resulted in him getting numerous derogatory and threatening messages.
After the death of the 17-year old Rehtaeh Parsons, Anonymous felt they needed to step in to reveal the group of rapists, if the police failed to act. The problem is, that by doing this, they might endanger their lives as enraged people will want to serve justice on them themselves.
Is justice done by attacking the attackers? Is it doing more good or harm to expose offenders to the public so they get what they deserve?
If everyone was to act as they please according to what they consider just, it could get our society and its proper function into danger. As an English philosopher Thomas Hobbes described in his work "Leviathan", the state of nature, where we would have no rules or boundaries would result in us living in constant fear and there would be no peace in the community.
Source:
Teitel, Emma. "The Moral Universe of Anonymous." Web log post. Maclean's. N.p., 12 Apr. 2013. Web. 10 May 2013. <http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/04/12/the-moral-universe-of-anonymous/>.
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